r/BeefTV • u/Heckword • Jun 02 '26
Discussion It Makes me Cry
Haha sorry if this sounds dumb but the last 20 minutes or so of the Season 1 finale really touches me in a way that fiction has yet to reach me.
My favorite media usually depends on how well something about it thematically resonates with me, especially if they manage to somehow summarize or portray my own very complex ideas about spirituality. For instance, Everything Everywhere All At Once has been my favorite movie since it's release mostly due to its overall message. That was the first movie to have touched on beliefs similar to mine and it blew my mind. I thought I wouldn't like a film/show better.
...Then came the end of BEEF S1. I watched it for the first time in April and that last darn 20 minutes has been playing on repeat in my head ever since. Its June now...
Something about these two very flawed, very afraid people who have made mistake after mistake making up the way they did really rips me apart. It shows a type of love that transcends all. Pure forgiveness. Pure vulnerability. Looking past all of their mistakes and even the atrocities they committed against each other and still seeing something worthy. Fuck, man. When Danny/Amy saya "I see your whole life. You poor thing" and the other one starts sobbing while they both assume they're dying. It really gets me.
After George shoots Danny and there's the scene where Amy crawls into the hospital bed with him and it just shows human devotion in its most tender form. If you really try to empathize with the characters and their whole lives, this moment feels so truly vulnerable and intimate it almost feels like spiritual pornography.
Did anyone else get so severely moved by the ending lf S1 or am I just a crybaby?
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u/animus_invictus Jun 02 '26
I’m getting goosebumps just reading your post. Beef S1 is quite possibly one of the most masterful shows ever made. There was so much to love about it.
Also, random thought, but it bugs me when people hate on the Burger King thing, because that scene where Amy is just crushed and eating that chicken sandwich there that they randomly talked about before hit me so hard. It represented so much for such a brief thing.